The reason why Jews have high IQ.

The high IQ of Jews is the result of evolution under the harsh pressure of choice.

In 2005, Gregory Cochrane and Henry Habending, two scholars from the University of Utah, put forward a rather surprising view: the intellectual advantage of Jews is the result of the evolution of the Jewish nation under the harsh pressure of choice in the past 1000 years.

Gregory Cochrane and Henry Harbendin published the book "The Big Bang" in 2009, which devoted a chapter to the theory that "the intellectual superiority of Jews is based on genetic biology".

In their view, this is a branch of Askinnaz people, which shows extraordinary intellectual advantages among Jews. Their ancestors were Jewish immigrants who crossed the Alps from southern Europe and the Middle East into Central Europe in the 9th-11century.

Compared with those who stayed in the Mediterranean world, they suffered more severe exclusion and restrictions, and their career choices were narrower. These restrictions pose a strong choice pressure on the intelligence level of ethnic minorities. In such a special social situation, it is natural that those smart and studious individuals are more likely to survive, and they can leave more offspring.

After nearly thirty or forty generations of high-intensity selection, the frequency of genetic characteristics related to high IQ in the population has increased significantly. According to a conservative estimate, the average IQ of Askinnazi people is about 1 10, which is 10 points higher than the average level of the United States in the same period, equivalent to 2/3 standard deviation.

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After the Jewish state was destroyed by the Roman Empire in 79 AD, some Jews fell to the Arabian Peninsula and lived with Arabs. Judaism also believes that Jews and Arabs come from the same ancestor. The word "Jew" in Chinese comes from Hebrew, and the word "Jew" in English comes from "Gyw, Iewe" in Middle English.

In other languages, Jews are represented as "juif" (French) and "J? De "(Danish) and judío (Spanish), and some languages also use Hebrew transliteration to refer to Jews, such as" Ebreo "(Italian) and" еврей "(Russian).

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